raffishness
- a word derived from raffish.
Example Sentences
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There are moments in some of his performances in which a bullfighter’s raffishness shines through.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018
Lapo's Wardrobe by Gucci brings Elkann's devil-may-care raffishness to menswear and accessories.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2014
But while those places have lost their Johnny-come-lately airs, Kuala Lumpur retains its charming frontier-town raffishness.
From New York Times • May 16, 2011
Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also objected to a certain raffishness which in an extremely mixed crowd of patriots rather too obviously "swept away silly old fads" and left the truly advanced to do as they liked.
From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
